Carolina Watchman

men of the world there is a great difference between the 3wer of giving good advice and the abil v to act upon it theoretical wisdom is rhaps rarely associated with practical - isdom and we often find that men m talent whatever contrive to pass throu4h e with credit and propriety under the lidance of a kind ot instinct these aje e persons who seem to stumble by mere od luck upon the philosopher's stone thc commerce of life everything they ' nch seems to turn into gold Â° we are apt to place the greatest confi Â°' nee in the advice of the successful and ni me at all in that of the unprosperous a if fortune never favored fools nor neg a ted the wise a man may have more s r licet than does him good for it tempts d m to meditate and to compare when he Â° oiild act with rapidity and decision : â€” & id by trusting too much to his own sa '( city and too little to fortune he often " -â€¢â– - many a golden opportunity that is n e a prize in the lottery to his less brill n it competitors it is not the men of e iught but the men of action who are n t fitted to push their way upward in . world the hamlets or philosopical " culators are of their element in the n vd they are wise enough as reflect Â° r observers but the moment tbey de *â€¢' nd from their solitary elevation and , l ngle with the thick throng of their fel *â€¢' v-creatures there is a sad discrepancy p tween their dignify as teachers and their a iduct as actors ; their wisdom in busy fl â– evaporates in words they talk like a res but they act like fools there is is essential difference between those qual ni s that are necessary for success in the l irld and those that are required in the a set bacon was the wisest of human a rugs in his quiet study but when he en a ed the wide and noisy theatre of life ; p sometimes conducted himself in away which he could have admirably point out the impropriety in a moral essay â– knew as well as any man that hones j ' is the best policy but he did not always t as if he thought so the fine intel t of addison could trace with subtlety d truth all the proprieties of social and , public life but he was himself deplor ilv inefficient both as a companion and . ... , i lo a statesman a more delicate and ac ai irate observer of human life than the i iet cowper is not often met with though â– was absolutely incapable of turning his lowledge and good sense to a practical j icount and when he came to act for him | if was as helpless and dependant as a lild the excellent author of the wealth p nations could not manage the econo i tj y of his own house i j pcople who have sought the advice of 1 iccessful men of the world have often tc iperienced a feeling of surprise and dis i lpointment when listening to their com ; ri onplace maxims and weak and barren j,j servations there is very frequently i qi esame discrepancy though in the oppo \ e te extreme between the words and the i ai itions of prosperous men of the world ; a at i have noticed in the ease of unsuc : ti tssful men of wisdom the former talk ' fe i;t tools but they act like men of sense ; j tc ie reverse is the ease with thc latter â€” tr he thinkers may safely direct the move bl eiits of other men but they do not seem 'â– ni sculiarly fitted to direct their own | ht they who bask in the sunshine of pros ' bi brit are generally inclined to be so un a fateful to fortune as to attribute all their n icccss to their own exertions and to sea a m v av pity for their less successful n fends with some degree of contempt in p e great majority of cases nothing can lf s more ridiculous and unjust in the list 1t thc prosperous there are very few in tj ed who owe their advancement to tal p it and sagacity alone the majority v list attribute their rise to a combination u industry prudence and good fortune ; a ul there arc many who are still more in ibted to the lucky accidents of life than p Â» their own character or conduct r perhaps not only the higher intellectual u ifts but even the liner moral emotions *; fe an encumbrance to the fortune-hunter '* disposition and extreme frank n ess and generosity have been thc ruin Â° a worldly sense of many a noble spirit . n here is a degree of cautiousness and mis e rust and a certain insensibility and stern a ess that seem essential to the man who ' as to bustle through the world and sc ll te his own interests lie can not turn n wde and indulge in generous sympathies without neglecting in some measure his o nvn affairs it is like a pedestrian's pro n te$s through a crowded street he can tl dot pause for a moment or look to the ti ngnt or left without increasing his own g when time and business " ress hard upon him thc cry of affliction â– a ie roadside is unheeded and forgotten tl acquires a habit of indifference to all \, uuhc one thing needful â€” his own sue ri ceÂ«s a shall not here speak of those by-ways . success in life which require only a j e share of hypocrisy and meanness ; i n of those insinuating manners and friv ! p the carolina watchman bruner & james ) si^_$b < new series e^vor | k^.c^rrox^vovk Â«^^^^^^ r^j j number 42 of volume i rtter rewarded than worth or genius â€¢ t of the arts by which a brazen-faced * venturer sometimes throws a modest id meritorious rival into the shade nor i all i proceed to show how great a draw < tck is a noble sincerity in the commerce ] the world the memorable scene be ] ecu gil bias and the archbishop of to " do is daily and nightly re-acted on the < eat stage of life i can not enter upon j inute particulars or touch upon all the i imerous branches of my subject without ( receding the limits i have proposed to ' yselfin the present essay perhaps a knowledge of the world in j e ordinary acceptation of thc phrase t ay mean nothing more than a knowledge 1 conventionalisms or a familiarity with ' e forms and ceremonials of society â€” his of course is of easy acquisition when e mind is once bent upon the task the actice of the small proprieties of life to congenial spirit soon ceases to be a stu ,â€¢; it rapidly becomes a mere habit or ; 1 untroubled and unerring instinct this ( always the case when there is no sed i itary labor by the midnight lamp to pro , ice an ungainly stoop in the shoulders id a conscious defect of grace and pli : icy in the limbs ; and where there is no r , istract thought or poetic vision to dissi ( ite thc attention and blind us to the tri ' al realities that are passing immediate < around us some degree of vanity and , ' perfect self-possession are absolutely es ntial but high intellect is only an ob . , ruction there are some who seem born 'â– | r the boudoir and the ball-room while > hers are as little fitted for fashionable 1 ciety as a fish is for the open air and ' e dry land they who are more fami tr with books than with men cannot . jk calm and pleased when their souls , e inwardly perplexed the almost ve j ; \\ hypocrisy of politeness is the more iminal and disgusting in their judgment : Â£ account of its difficulty to themselves ' l d the provoking ease with which it ap * ars to be adopted by others the lo j j acity of the forward the effeminate af ' j station of the foppish and the senten , i itisness of shallow gravity excite a feel j g of contempt and weariness that they vc-neither the skill nor the inclination ! . conceal ( a recluse philosopher is unable to re ; ; rn a simple salutation without betraying \ \ 3 awkwardness and uneasiness to the ( ick eye of thc man of the world he : ' hibits a ludicrous mixture of humility | . d pride he is indignant at the assur ; < ice of others and is mortified at his own \ < nidity he is vexed that he should suf ; ' r those whom he feels to be his inferiors j ' â– j enjoy a temporary superiority he is . nibled that they should be able to trou . b him and ashamed that they should | nke him ashamed such a man when i : enters into society brings all his pride i ' it leaves his vanity behind him pride j ' lows our wounds to remain exposed and j ' akes them doubly irritable ; but vanity i sancho says of sleep seems to cover a ; â€¢ an all over as with a cloak a contem 1 ative spirit can not concentrate its at [ ntion on minute and uninteresting cere ; onials and a sense of unfitness for soci makes the most ordinary of its duties a linful task there are some authors : ho would rather write a quarto volume praise of woman than hand a fashion : jle lady to her chair the foolish and formal conversation of , ilite life is naturally uninteresting to the tired scholar but it would perhaps.be ss objectionable if he thought he could ke a share in it with any degree of crcd ile can not despise his fellow creatures r be wholly indifferent to their good inion whatever he may think of their ; aimers and conversation his uneasiness inces that he does not feci altogether ' iove or independent of them no man ivcsto seem unfit for the company he is ' . at rome every man would be a ro the axioms most familiar to men of the orld are passed from one tongue to an her without much reflection they are ; erely parroted some critics have thought at the advice which polonius in the agedy of hamlet gives his son on his j ing abroad exhibits a degree of wisdom holly inconsistent with the general cha cter of that weak and foolish old man . ut in this case as in most of a similar na ' re we find on closer consideration that ' hat may seem at the first glance an er r or oversight of shakspeare's is only lothef illustration of his accurate know â€¢ dge of human life the precepts which i e old man desires to fix in the mind of â€¢ aertes are just such as he might have 1 ard a hundred thousand times in his long j issage through the world they are not j â– brought out from the depths of his own : Â£ soul ; they have only fastened themselves ( on his memory and are much nearer to j his tongue than to his heart nooneissur < c prised at the innumerable wise saws and : i proverbial phrases that issue from the lips t of thc most silly and ignorant old women t in all ranks of life in town and country j in cottages and in courts in the conver 1 sation of the weakest-minded persons we â€¢ ( often find as in that of polonius both j i " matter and impertinency mixed his ( advice is not that of a philosopher but of t a courtier and man of the world he e . choes the common wisdom of his associ -. ates : â€” t " give every man thine ear but few thy voice : i take each man's censure but reserve thy judgment ; he is indebted to his court education for ', < this mean and heartless maxim to lis t ten eagerly to the communications of oth j i ers and to conceal his own thoughts is i t the first lesson that a courtier learns let ; s us quote another specimen of his paternal '. t admonitions â€” j i " neither a borrower nor a lender be ; \ _ for loan oft loses both itself and friend i and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry polonius might have picked up this mar j vellous scrap of prudence iu some petly a tradesman's shop ; not however in a 1 1 pawnbroker's for the sign of which it t would form a very forbidding motto â€” i there are a few precepts in the parting t advice of polonius of a somewhat higher i character ; but they are only such as float _ about the world and are repeated on ac casion by all well-intentioned people â€” they are not of that high and original cast which shakspeare would have put into the mouth of hamlet or any other thoughtful and noble-hearted personage it seems paradoxical to affirm that men c who are out of the world know more of ' the philosophy of its movements than those j t who are in it ; but it is nevertheless per j f fectly true and easily accounted for the j busy man is so rapidly whirled about in j t the vast machine that he has not leisure ! . to observe its motion an observer sta tioned on a hill that overlooks a battle can see more distinctly the operations of either j army than the combatants themselves â€” 1 they who have attained success by mere ! i good fortune are particularly ill-fitted to j \ direct and counsel others who are strug , gling through the labyrinths of life a j shrewd observer who has touched the j rocks is a better pilot than he who has . s passed through a difficult channel in ig c norance of its dangers j * the extent of a person's knowledge of r mankind is not to be calculated by the 1 number of his years the old indeed are ' , always wise in their own estimation and t eagerly volunteer advice which is not in all cases as eagerly received the stale preparatory sentence of " when you have s come to my years etc is occasionally a ' prologue to the wearisome farce of second j childhood a latin proverb says that ! " experience teacheth it sometimes does i j so but not always experience can not . confer natural sagacity and without that it is nearly useless it is said to be an i axiom in natural history that a cat will ' never tread again the road on which it i c has been beaten but this has been dis f proved in a thousand experiments it is . the same with mankind a weak-minded Â£ man let his years be few or numerous t will no sooner be extricated from a silly scrape than he will fall again into the same way nothing is more common than for old women of either sex to shake 1 with a solemn gravity their thin gray hairs i as if they covered a repository of gathered ( wisdom when perchance some clear and j lively head upon younger shoulders has , fifty times the knowledge with less than half the pretension we are not always wise in proportion to our opportunities of . c acquiring wisdom but according to the ' shrewdness and activity of our observa i tion nor is a mans fortune in all cases < an unequivocal criterion of the character ( of his intellect or his knowledge in the 5 world men in business acquire a habit , of guarding themselves very carefully a gainst the arts of those with whom they are brought in contact in their commercial transactions : but they are perhaps better : versed in goods and securities than in the ( human heart they wisely trust a great 1 deal more to law papers than to the hu man face divine or any of those indica tions of character which are so unerringly a perused by a profound observer a great â€¢ dramatic poet can lift the curtain of the i human heart ; but mere men of business ; must act always in the dark and taking ] it for granted that every individual what ( ever his ostensible character may be a , secret villain they will have no transac j tions with their fellow-creatures until they have made assurance doubly sure and i secured themselves from the possibility of i roguery and imposition they carry this i halit of caution and mistrustfulness to . such a melancholy extreme that they will , hardly lend a guinea to a father or a bro ther without a regular receipt they judge of all mankind by a few wretched exceptions lawyers have a similar ten < dency to form partial and unfavorable o 1 pinions of their fellow-creatures because j they come in contact with the worst spe , cimens of humanity and see more of the , dark side of life than other men of all classes of men perhaps the members of the medical profession have the best op ' portunity of forming a fair and accurate i judgment of mankind in general and it is t gratifying to know that none have a high er opinion of human nature it is observable that men are very much disposed to " make themselves the meas ure of mankind ;" or in other words when they paint their fellow-creaturrs to dip their brush in the colorsof their own heart " all seem infected that the infected spy i as all seems yeilcw to the jaundiced eye on the other hand a frank and noble spi ' rit observes he world by the light of its own nature ; and indeed all who have stu died mankind without prejudice or parti ality and with a wide and liberal obser vation have felt that man is not altoge ther unworthy of being formed after the image of his maker though i have alluded to the tendency of some particular professions to indurate the heart and limit or wrap the judgment i should be sorry indeed if the remarks that i have ventured upon this subject should be regarded as an avowal of hos tility toward any class whatever of my fellow-creatures i should be guilty of a gross absurdity and injustice if i did not readily admit that intellect and virtue are not confined to one class or excluded from another men are generally speaking very much the creature of circumstance ; but there is no condition of life in which the soul has not sometimes asserted her independence of all adventitious distinc tions : and there is no trade or profession in which we do not meet with men who are an honor to human nature i i from the new york american and this is life lie who would analyze the seemingly contra dictory elements in which man moves and has his being need not wonder at the discontent the happiness the restlessness the vanity the pride the show of wealth the desire to conceal it the arrogant claims of learning the attrac tions of beauty the workings of retired talent the multiplicity of noisy nothings ; all of which have their day and sway there is the retired man of business over laid with all the seeming requisites of happi ness ; breakfasts when he chooses sumptuous ly lounges in his unread library and takes his airing in almost regal style by the fellowship which he has established in society he is constantly reminded of his deficien cies in those accomplishments that invest life with charms the most engaging and dignity the most enduring thrice every week he goes to his bed wofully sensible that horace and a'ir gil have lived for hirn in vain and grecian bards tuned their lyres for more fortunate and happier sensibilities he awakes on his 50th anniver sary determined to enter the labyrinth of classic lore and is losl and this is life ! there is the plodding merchant who goes to his counting-room and until his letters are read is hardly conscious of anything but existence â€” his brow contracts or expands according to thc nature of their contents ; he reads and is filled ; determines to sell his coffee and cotton to the first bidder and at the least sacrifice ; goes home with a sinker at his heart ; finds fault with his dinner and if he has a wife is almost tempted to sell her and this is life ! there is the stock broker â€” gregp.rious from his birth â€” he comes to his six by eight lodgment in wall street with a quick step and every mus cle and eye alert â€” he goes out to feed in the highway as hens do along with their brood un til 104 o'clock when he mounts to a higher re gion to set ruminate and realize â€” philosophizes on the insecurity of securities â€” hates the like ness of the market to the tides so regular in their ups and downs â€” is vexed that he did not go into smiling canton instead of drooping stonington ; goes home to dinner looks grave at his wife snubs his children and protests against having any more and this is life ! there is the clerk whose yearnings for notice and gentility have induced him to quit his hard though safe bench in the counting house for a basement in once of the city thoroughfares where he sets up champaigne cigar and bacon vender possessing some light accomplish ments he receives invitations to parties and havin no real ownership in himself always accepts ; to decline he dares not â€” by little and little he goes into love but is obliged to come out of it much more suddenly : he goes home at midnight to his estate of one room and the furniture sullen dissatisfied and vexed that peo pie cannot be uncorked as easily as his cham paigne and swearing that he will devote the next twelve months in mastering the art that enables so many to butter their bread on both sides and pay their rent and this is life ! there is peter snug who has lived so long on one spot as to make his oneness immortal ; he serves as a perpetual sign board to the ris ing veneration ; his trophies are defunct dealers non descript merchants and visionary shop keepers he rises with the sun breakfasts and dines with a despatch not surpassed by the express mail and makes his bank deposit so uniformly that its omission would throw an ordinary cash ter into a ht ot sickness he early calculated thc price of wile and children but was fright j ened by the looting up ; he was wedded to econ ( omy and the shop and his gray hairs attest his | fidelity blow high or blow low he stands alone ; and erect < anj this is counter life ! ' i there is the mechanic emphatically the ar | tificer of his own fortune his mind so runs on < timber iron bricks and leather that it is not 1 strange he should think his wife and children ' composed in paft of the same materials : hence ' the joints that connect his paternal ark are sub ( jected to no small wear and tear : but the pan acea ot many ills money is coming in while temper is going out and if they miss ot an av , erage share of happiness it is because the ijoss ( aspires to and secures a seat hi the assembly 1 where he diligently assists in i-lancm down ' opinions that have essentially contributed to his j . . ' elevation . and this is life ! there is the rich sleeping partner his < sleepiness goes abroad to air his other faculties 1 and get awake â€” travels every where but into ' countimr houses â€” he knows c.lasjrow stanches ' . . i ter liverpool and lyons as matters ot histo ry and london paris and naples as matters of ( fact â€” perhaps he carries a winning card in the â€¢ shape of a wife who by a sweet presence and i voluble discourse secures for them ambassado 1 rial letters presentations at court and whatev | er else their ingenuity may demise having contracted a heavy load of european reminis cences they come home and tip up ; but the â– monotonous humdrum of american life soon be ( comes insipid and off they go to be again mere \ spectators of stars and garters in the elder world whilst repeating this dilicious experi â– ment a letter marked " private comes from the ameiican firm premonitory of coming ill and arrests the enjoyment of their carnival â€” ere long they find themselves upon the billows both real and imaginary not know ing what may befa them and this is life ! there is the very close shrewed man who is viewed by his townsmen as a soit of walking razor â€” edge never dull â€” rarely offers his arm unless to a stranger and can scent an applicant for a loan the length of wall street in his domicile you may remark design â€” all concur ring and subservient to one end srlf â€” and it is fortunate if his children do not prove to be a lit tle race of penknives the daily torment of this man is the fear of being over-reached and dying of a broken heart i t and this is life ! ! . there is the fortunate unfortunate the man ( who when his last creditor signed off rose in : imagination like a rocket ; a million are in pros pect and prospects enough for a million con quer or die " was the motto and he did die and made no sign . and this is life ! | there is the man of great pretensions whom t to buy at his own price would beggar an astor â€¢' â€” behind his chair and carriage servants wait : < a very respectable man that nobody respects : inwards how full of piety : in actions how in . exorable ; has an all-ahounding appetite for great agencies and through them becomes a { sort of dictator to impoiters and jobbers : his , notion of equit is defined by selden s remark 1 â€” " arcordinji to the size of the chancellor's ; foot in settling family estate he would l.c - more executioner that executor if he should : i ever die a slate and pencil would be an appro ' pria'.e emblem on his grave stone and this is life ! there is the poet fearfully and wonderfully made sometimes life hanging in festoons ot , richest flowers all about him and his aspira tions partaking of their hue ; to him the true and beautiful seem always approaching but ne : ver arrived ; he works day and night in con . structing a monument to the muses and though summoned they come not to its consecration ; he sighs over the apathy and insensibility of bis fellow-men until irÂ«n turns his choice helicon ( into bitters or forces him at last to slake his ( thirst from a fountain of common croton â€” i on this fare he thrives and soon marries into the extensive family of the magazines and has j a very respectable progeny of essays : he sue ] ceeds in walking the earth like other people , only now and then mourning over the decline - of poetry particularly his own and litis is life ! i will say nothing of the man of much money i lar^e wisdom and entire good faith until i find him d e x sabbath in switzerland â€” a correspon i dent of the n y observer writing from zurich savs " i spent the sabbath here and was surprised to find in this home ol zwingli â€” this protestant canton â€” so little . respect to its sanctity towards evening , the military were reviewed on the public j square while on one side was a public ex t hibition of rope dancers and tumblers and - among the tumblers two rosy cheeked pea . sant girls this is a protest canton in j deed protestant it may be but this was j ( no protestant sabbath x by ramming a coal of fire into the muzzle of . a loaded gun you can save the priming j < reigx of terror macaulay in his review of the " me moirs of barrere gives the following brief but striking picture of the reign 01 terror in revolutionary france : then came those days when the most barbarous of all codes was administered by the most barbarous of all tribunals when no man could greet his neighbors - or say his prayers or dress his hair with out danger of committing a capital crime when spies lurked in every corner when __ the guillotine was long and hard at work j every morning : when the jails were filled as close as the hold of a slave ship when * j the gutters ran foaming with blood into â– " the seine ; when it was death to be great i neice to a captain of the royal guard or le a half brother to a doctor of sarbonne : t express a doubt whether assignats would not lull : to hint that the english had been victorious in the action of the lirst of june r to have a copy of burke's pamphlets lock n ed up in a desk : â€” to laugh at a jacobin ot for taking the name of casstus or thno rn | icon or to call the fifth sans-culotide by e its old superstitious name of st maihew's ,. day while the daily wagon loads were carried to their doom through the streets " of paris the proconsuls whom the sover eign committee had sent forih to the de r partments revelled in an extravagance of ss cruelty unknown men in the capital the v knife of the deadly machine rose and fell u too slow for their work of slaughter â€” j long rows of captives were mowed down with grape shot holes were made in the bottom of crowded barges lyons was turned into a desert at arras even the is cruel mercy of speedy death was denied s to the prisoners all down the loire from to samnr to the sea gnat flocks of crows and kites feasted on naked corpses twined together in hideous embraces no mercy o ' 1 mi i â€¢ , was shown to sex or age 1 in number j of young lads and â€¢_: i 1 1 s of seventeen who ie j were murdered by that execrable govern xl ment is to he reckoned by hundreds ba o hies torn from the breast were tossed from v pike to pike alonir the jacobin ranks â€” fr one champion of liberty had his pockets well stuffed with ears another swag . gered about with the finger of a little child in his hat a few months had served to e degrade france below the level of new zealand i travelling over the andes â„¢ i l c pickett esq u slates vkarge _] â– de affaires at lima in a letter to the na vs tional institute remarks â€” ay i have travelled five days at a time a mong the andes without seeing a human creature except those with me and along a track not a road which for the most 1s part serpen ized over almost perpendicu g lar precipices or through a lures literally ii impervious by cutting one's way at every nt step provisions luggage and everything iis were carried on men's backs : and my r saddle-horse was a stout mulatto part in â€¢ dian whom 1 occasionally mounted when tired of walking 1 felt at first a decided * repugnance to this sort of equitation and " could not think of using a fellow-being for a beast of burden : but the necessity of the case and the custom of the country rot the better of my scruples a they bad m of more conscientious men no doubt and jn as the sillero chairman as be was called told me it was his occupation to carry christians over the mountains and solici ' ted tin job i struck a bargain with him and the price was i through i riding ; about half the time this quadrupedal biped if so he may be called turned out m j to be a very surefooted and trusty animal r and carried me in perfect safety t the end . of the route tbe modus equitandihs this : '. instead of a saddle a very liirht chair is used which the chairman dbilrs upon bis back and the traveller ace when seat 3r ed in it is to the north should he be going a to the south and rir versa it i neces ls sary that when mounted he should keep k himself very accurately balanced for there s are many places in passing which a false c step on the part of the sillero might cause j a tumble down a precipice which would -,. : be fatal both to the rider and the ridden pauperism â€” in massachusetts the number , of state paupers lor th year ending 1st of no lv vember 1-4 1 was 6,060 of these 3,688 Â°* more than one half are foreigners l in st louis hc number of paupers in tho ie alms house is i : of these 13 are foreigners . and 25 americans during the inst four jean there have been admitted into tho st louis *" marine hospital 1,289 fbreigaen and 530 > americans 1 : on this the triliune says : â€” 15 â€¢â€¢ sueh acts as these are sometimes cited to n disparage foreigners : bat they may better bo is considered as compliments to americans who _ prefer to rent dwellings for themselres ratbet , than to creep under tbe shelter of thc roofs of edifices provided for t need bj the state â€” 15 besides it is singular that in america â€” the c borne of all classes from the old world hoth the e educate and prosperous the poor and ignorant ie â€” is it singular that some portion ft the latter should claim our charity in this new land of their adoption ! let them come in god's name and get what aceommodatiom they can v in this wide abode of prosperity j let them come but not from european poor 1 houses and european prisons a tax upon the hard laborer of america a poison to society and thc republic why *** e '" wpp u n the sweepings and sweep-oft of thc earth i â€” m nesc york expn ts e of j^p an establishment for themnnufac e ture of various articles of silk is now in *Â» active operation at louisville the lou ic isville journal says most of the opera k tions in this factory are effected by steam the cocoons are reeled on the machine l universally known as the piedmontese *" reel and the silk is spun on a throstle ma 1551 chine a modification of which makes the tw isted silk three looms are worked i and are principally employed in making of sewing silk handkerchiefs vestings and j dress patterns for ladies

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men of the world there is a great difference between the 3wer of giving good advice and the abil v to act upon it theoretical wisdom is rhaps rarely associated with practical - isdom and we often find that men m talent whatever contrive to pass throu4h e with credit and propriety under the lidance of a kind ot instinct these aje e persons who seem to stumble by mere od luck upon the philosopher's stone thc commerce of life everything they ' nch seems to turn into gold Â° we are apt to place the greatest confi Â°' nee in the advice of the successful and ni me at all in that of the unprosperous a if fortune never favored fools nor neg a ted the wise a man may have more s r licet than does him good for it tempts d m to meditate and to compare when he Â° oiild act with rapidity and decision : â€” & id by trusting too much to his own sa '( city and too little to fortune he often " -â€¢â– - many a golden opportunity that is n e a prize in the lottery to his less brill n it competitors it is not the men of e iught but the men of action who are n t fitted to push their way upward in . world the hamlets or philosopical " culators are of their element in the n vd they are wise enough as reflect Â° r observers but the moment tbey de *â€¢' nd from their solitary elevation and , l ngle with the thick throng of their fel *â€¢' v-creatures there is a sad discrepancy p tween their dignify as teachers and their a iduct as actors ; their wisdom in busy fl â– evaporates in words they talk like a res but they act like fools there is is essential difference between those qual ni s that are necessary for success in the l irld and those that are required in the a set bacon was the wisest of human a rugs in his quiet study but when he en a ed the wide and noisy theatre of life ; p sometimes conducted himself in away which he could have admirably point out the impropriety in a moral essay â– knew as well as any man that hones j ' is the best policy but he did not always t as if he thought so the fine intel t of addison could trace with subtlety d truth all the proprieties of social and , public life but he was himself deplor ilv inefficient both as a companion and . ... , i lo a statesman a more delicate and ac ai irate observer of human life than the i iet cowper is not often met with though â– was absolutely incapable of turning his lowledge and good sense to a practical j icount and when he came to act for him | if was as helpless and dependant as a lild the excellent author of the wealth p nations could not manage the econo i tj y of his own house i j pcople who have sought the advice of 1 iccessful men of the world have often tc iperienced a feeling of surprise and dis i lpointment when listening to their com ; ri onplace maxims and weak and barren j,j servations there is very frequently i qi esame discrepancy though in the oppo \ e te extreme between the words and the i ai itions of prosperous men of the world ; a at i have noticed in the ease of unsuc : ti tssful men of wisdom the former talk ' fe i;t tools but they act like men of sense ; j tc ie reverse is the ease with thc latter â€” tr he thinkers may safely direct the move bl eiits of other men but they do not seem 'â– ni sculiarly fitted to direct their own | ht they who bask in the sunshine of pros ' bi brit are generally inclined to be so un a fateful to fortune as to attribute all their n icccss to their own exertions and to sea a m v av pity for their less successful n fends with some degree of contempt in p e great majority of cases nothing can lf s more ridiculous and unjust in the list 1t thc prosperous there are very few in tj ed who owe their advancement to tal p it and sagacity alone the majority v list attribute their rise to a combination u industry prudence and good fortune ; a ul there arc many who are still more in ibted to the lucky accidents of life than p Â» their own character or conduct r perhaps not only the higher intellectual u ifts but even the liner moral emotions *; fe an encumbrance to the fortune-hunter '* disposition and extreme frank n ess and generosity have been thc ruin Â° a worldly sense of many a noble spirit . n here is a degree of cautiousness and mis e rust and a certain insensibility and stern a ess that seem essential to the man who ' as to bustle through the world and sc ll te his own interests lie can not turn n wde and indulge in generous sympathies without neglecting in some measure his o nvn affairs it is like a pedestrian's pro n te$s through a crowded street he can tl dot pause for a moment or look to the ti ngnt or left without increasing his own g when time and business " ress hard upon him thc cry of affliction â– a ie roadside is unheeded and forgotten tl acquires a habit of indifference to all \, uuhc one thing needful â€” his own sue ri ceÂ«s a shall not here speak of those by-ways . success in life which require only a j e share of hypocrisy and meanness ; i n of those insinuating manners and friv ! p the carolina watchman bruner & james ) si^_$b < new series e^vor | k^.c^rrox^vovk Â«^^^^^^ r^j j number 42 of volume i rtter rewarded than worth or genius â€¢ t of the arts by which a brazen-faced * venturer sometimes throws a modest id meritorious rival into the shade nor i all i proceed to show how great a draw < tck is a noble sincerity in the commerce ] the world the memorable scene be ] ecu gil bias and the archbishop of to " do is daily and nightly re-acted on the < eat stage of life i can not enter upon j inute particulars or touch upon all the i imerous branches of my subject without ( receding the limits i have proposed to ' yselfin the present essay perhaps a knowledge of the world in j e ordinary acceptation of thc phrase t ay mean nothing more than a knowledge 1 conventionalisms or a familiarity with ' e forms and ceremonials of society â€” his of course is of easy acquisition when e mind is once bent upon the task the actice of the small proprieties of life to congenial spirit soon ceases to be a stu ,â€¢; it rapidly becomes a mere habit or ; 1 untroubled and unerring instinct this ( always the case when there is no sed i itary labor by the midnight lamp to pro , ice an ungainly stoop in the shoulders id a conscious defect of grace and pli : icy in the limbs ; and where there is no r , istract thought or poetic vision to dissi ( ite thc attention and blind us to the tri ' al realities that are passing immediate < around us some degree of vanity and , ' perfect self-possession are absolutely es ntial but high intellect is only an ob . , ruction there are some who seem born 'â– | r the boudoir and the ball-room while > hers are as little fitted for fashionable 1 ciety as a fish is for the open air and ' e dry land they who are more fami tr with books than with men cannot . jk calm and pleased when their souls , e inwardly perplexed the almost ve j ; \\ hypocrisy of politeness is the more iminal and disgusting in their judgment : Â£ account of its difficulty to themselves ' l d the provoking ease with which it ap * ars to be adopted by others the lo j j acity of the forward the effeminate af ' j station of the foppish and the senten , i itisness of shallow gravity excite a feel j g of contempt and weariness that they vc-neither the skill nor the inclination ! . conceal ( a recluse philosopher is unable to re ; ; rn a simple salutation without betraying \ \ 3 awkwardness and uneasiness to the ( ick eye of thc man of the world he : ' hibits a ludicrous mixture of humility | . d pride he is indignant at the assur ; < ice of others and is mortified at his own \ < nidity he is vexed that he should suf ; ' r those whom he feels to be his inferiors j ' â– j enjoy a temporary superiority he is . nibled that they should be able to trou . b him and ashamed that they should | nke him ashamed such a man when i : enters into society brings all his pride i ' it leaves his vanity behind him pride j ' lows our wounds to remain exposed and j ' akes them doubly irritable ; but vanity i sancho says of sleep seems to cover a ; â€¢ an all over as with a cloak a contem 1 ative spirit can not concentrate its at [ ntion on minute and uninteresting cere ; onials and a sense of unfitness for soci makes the most ordinary of its duties a linful task there are some authors : ho would rather write a quarto volume praise of woman than hand a fashion : jle lady to her chair the foolish and formal conversation of , ilite life is naturally uninteresting to the tired scholar but it would perhaps.be ss objectionable if he thought he could ke a share in it with any degree of crcd ile can not despise his fellow creatures r be wholly indifferent to their good inion whatever he may think of their ; aimers and conversation his uneasiness inces that he does not feci altogether ' iove or independent of them no man ivcsto seem unfit for the company he is ' . at rome every man would be a ro the axioms most familiar to men of the orld are passed from one tongue to an her without much reflection they are ; erely parroted some critics have thought at the advice which polonius in the agedy of hamlet gives his son on his j ing abroad exhibits a degree of wisdom holly inconsistent with the general cha cter of that weak and foolish old man . ut in this case as in most of a similar na ' re we find on closer consideration that ' hat may seem at the first glance an er r or oversight of shakspeare's is only lothef illustration of his accurate know â€¢ dge of human life the precepts which i e old man desires to fix in the mind of â€¢ aertes are just such as he might have 1 ard a hundred thousand times in his long j issage through the world they are not j â– brought out from the depths of his own : Â£ soul ; they have only fastened themselves ( on his memory and are much nearer to j his tongue than to his heart nooneissur < c prised at the innumerable wise saws and : i proverbial phrases that issue from the lips t of thc most silly and ignorant old women t in all ranks of life in town and country j in cottages and in courts in the conver 1 sation of the weakest-minded persons we â€¢ ( often find as in that of polonius both j i " matter and impertinency mixed his ( advice is not that of a philosopher but of t a courtier and man of the world he e . choes the common wisdom of his associ -. ates : â€” t " give every man thine ear but few thy voice : i take each man's censure but reserve thy judgment ; he is indebted to his court education for ', < this mean and heartless maxim to lis t ten eagerly to the communications of oth j i ers and to conceal his own thoughts is i t the first lesson that a courtier learns let ; s us quote another specimen of his paternal '. t admonitions â€” j i " neither a borrower nor a lender be ; \ _ for loan oft loses both itself and friend i and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry polonius might have picked up this mar j vellous scrap of prudence iu some petly a tradesman's shop ; not however in a 1 1 pawnbroker's for the sign of which it t would form a very forbidding motto â€” i there are a few precepts in the parting t advice of polonius of a somewhat higher i character ; but they are only such as float _ about the world and are repeated on ac casion by all well-intentioned people â€” they are not of that high and original cast which shakspeare would have put into the mouth of hamlet or any other thoughtful and noble-hearted personage it seems paradoxical to affirm that men c who are out of the world know more of ' the philosophy of its movements than those j t who are in it ; but it is nevertheless per j f fectly true and easily accounted for the j busy man is so rapidly whirled about in j t the vast machine that he has not leisure ! . to observe its motion an observer sta tioned on a hill that overlooks a battle can see more distinctly the operations of either j army than the combatants themselves â€” 1 they who have attained success by mere ! i good fortune are particularly ill-fitted to j \ direct and counsel others who are strug , gling through the labyrinths of life a j shrewd observer who has touched the j rocks is a better pilot than he who has . s passed through a difficult channel in ig c norance of its dangers j * the extent of a person's knowledge of r mankind is not to be calculated by the 1 number of his years the old indeed are ' , always wise in their own estimation and t eagerly volunteer advice which is not in all cases as eagerly received the stale preparatory sentence of " when you have s come to my years etc is occasionally a ' prologue to the wearisome farce of second j childhood a latin proverb says that ! " experience teacheth it sometimes does i j so but not always experience can not . confer natural sagacity and without that it is nearly useless it is said to be an i axiom in natural history that a cat will ' never tread again the road on which it i c has been beaten but this has been dis f proved in a thousand experiments it is . the same with mankind a weak-minded Â£ man let his years be few or numerous t will no sooner be extricated from a silly scrape than he will fall again into the same way nothing is more common than for old women of either sex to shake 1 with a solemn gravity their thin gray hairs i as if they covered a repository of gathered ( wisdom when perchance some clear and j lively head upon younger shoulders has , fifty times the knowledge with less than half the pretension we are not always wise in proportion to our opportunities of . c acquiring wisdom but according to the ' shrewdness and activity of our observa i tion nor is a mans fortune in all cases < an unequivocal criterion of the character ( of his intellect or his knowledge in the 5 world men in business acquire a habit , of guarding themselves very carefully a gainst the arts of those with whom they are brought in contact in their commercial transactions : but they are perhaps better : versed in goods and securities than in the ( human heart they wisely trust a great 1 deal more to law papers than to the hu man face divine or any of those indica tions of character which are so unerringly a perused by a profound observer a great â€¢ dramatic poet can lift the curtain of the i human heart ; but mere men of business ; must act always in the dark and taking ] it for granted that every individual what ( ever his ostensible character may be a , secret villain they will have no transac j tions with their fellow-creatures until they have made assurance doubly sure and i secured themselves from the possibility of i roguery and imposition they carry this i halit of caution and mistrustfulness to . such a melancholy extreme that they will , hardly lend a guinea to a father or a bro ther without a regular receipt they judge of all mankind by a few wretched exceptions lawyers have a similar ten < dency to form partial and unfavorable o 1 pinions of their fellow-creatures because j they come in contact with the worst spe , cimens of humanity and see more of the , dark side of life than other men of all classes of men perhaps the members of the medical profession have the best op ' portunity of forming a fair and accurate i judgment of mankind in general and it is t gratifying to know that none have a high er opinion of human nature it is observable that men are very much disposed to " make themselves the meas ure of mankind ;" or in other words when they paint their fellow-creaturrs to dip their brush in the colorsof their own heart " all seem infected that the infected spy i as all seems yeilcw to the jaundiced eye on the other hand a frank and noble spi ' rit observes he world by the light of its own nature ; and indeed all who have stu died mankind without prejudice or parti ality and with a wide and liberal obser vation have felt that man is not altoge ther unworthy of being formed after the image of his maker though i have alluded to the tendency of some particular professions to indurate the heart and limit or wrap the judgment i should be sorry indeed if the remarks that i have ventured upon this subject should be regarded as an avowal of hos tility toward any class whatever of my fellow-creatures i should be guilty of a gross absurdity and injustice if i did not readily admit that intellect and virtue are not confined to one class or excluded from another men are generally speaking very much the creature of circumstance ; but there is no condition of life in which the soul has not sometimes asserted her independence of all adventitious distinc tions : and there is no trade or profession in which we do not meet with men who are an honor to human nature i i from the new york american and this is life lie who would analyze the seemingly contra dictory elements in which man moves and has his being need not wonder at the discontent the happiness the restlessness the vanity the pride the show of wealth the desire to conceal it the arrogant claims of learning the attrac tions of beauty the workings of retired talent the multiplicity of noisy nothings ; all of which have their day and sway there is the retired man of business over laid with all the seeming requisites of happi ness ; breakfasts when he chooses sumptuous ly lounges in his unread library and takes his airing in almost regal style by the fellowship which he has established in society he is constantly reminded of his deficien cies in those accomplishments that invest life with charms the most engaging and dignity the most enduring thrice every week he goes to his bed wofully sensible that horace and a'ir gil have lived for hirn in vain and grecian bards tuned their lyres for more fortunate and happier sensibilities he awakes on his 50th anniver sary determined to enter the labyrinth of classic lore and is losl and this is life ! there is the plodding merchant who goes to his counting-room and until his letters are read is hardly conscious of anything but existence â€” his brow contracts or expands according to thc nature of their contents ; he reads and is filled ; determines to sell his coffee and cotton to the first bidder and at the least sacrifice ; goes home with a sinker at his heart ; finds fault with his dinner and if he has a wife is almost tempted to sell her and this is life ! there is the stock broker â€” gregp.rious from his birth â€” he comes to his six by eight lodgment in wall street with a quick step and every mus cle and eye alert â€” he goes out to feed in the highway as hens do along with their brood un til 104 o'clock when he mounts to a higher re gion to set ruminate and realize â€” philosophizes on the insecurity of securities â€” hates the like ness of the market to the tides so regular in their ups and downs â€” is vexed that he did not go into smiling canton instead of drooping stonington ; goes home to dinner looks grave at his wife snubs his children and protests against having any more and this is life ! there is the clerk whose yearnings for notice and gentility have induced him to quit his hard though safe bench in the counting house for a basement in once of the city thoroughfares where he sets up champaigne cigar and bacon vender possessing some light accomplish ments he receives invitations to parties and havin no real ownership in himself always accepts ; to decline he dares not â€” by little and little he goes into love but is obliged to come out of it much more suddenly : he goes home at midnight to his estate of one room and the furniture sullen dissatisfied and vexed that peo pie cannot be uncorked as easily as his cham paigne and swearing that he will devote the next twelve months in mastering the art that enables so many to butter their bread on both sides and pay their rent and this is life ! there is peter snug who has lived so long on one spot as to make his oneness immortal ; he serves as a perpetual sign board to the ris ing veneration ; his trophies are defunct dealers non descript merchants and visionary shop keepers he rises with the sun breakfasts and dines with a despatch not surpassed by the express mail and makes his bank deposit so uniformly that its omission would throw an ordinary cash ter into a ht ot sickness he early calculated thc price of wile and children but was fright j ened by the looting up ; he was wedded to econ ( omy and the shop and his gray hairs attest his | fidelity blow high or blow low he stands alone ; and erect < anj this is counter life ! ' i there is the mechanic emphatically the ar | tificer of his own fortune his mind so runs on < timber iron bricks and leather that it is not 1 strange he should think his wife and children ' composed in paft of the same materials : hence ' the joints that connect his paternal ark are sub ( jected to no small wear and tear : but the pan acea ot many ills money is coming in while temper is going out and if they miss ot an av , erage share of happiness it is because the ijoss ( aspires to and secures a seat hi the assembly 1 where he diligently assists in i-lancm down ' opinions that have essentially contributed to his j . . ' elevation . and this is life ! there is the rich sleeping partner his < sleepiness goes abroad to air his other faculties 1 and get awake â€” travels every where but into ' countimr houses â€” he knows c.lasjrow stanches ' . . i ter liverpool and lyons as matters ot histo ry and london paris and naples as matters of ( fact â€” perhaps he carries a winning card in the â€¢ shape of a wife who by a sweet presence and i voluble discourse secures for them ambassado 1 rial letters presentations at court and whatev | er else their ingenuity may demise having contracted a heavy load of european reminis cences they come home and tip up ; but the â– monotonous humdrum of american life soon be ( comes insipid and off they go to be again mere \ spectators of stars and garters in the elder world whilst repeating this dilicious experi â– ment a letter marked " private comes from the ameiican firm premonitory of coming ill and arrests the enjoyment of their carnival â€” ere long they find themselves upon the billows both real and imaginary not know ing what may befa them and this is life ! there is the very close shrewed man who is viewed by his townsmen as a soit of walking razor â€” edge never dull â€” rarely offers his arm unless to a stranger and can scent an applicant for a loan the length of wall street in his domicile you may remark design â€” all concur ring and subservient to one end srlf â€” and it is fortunate if his children do not prove to be a lit tle race of penknives the daily torment of this man is the fear of being over-reached and dying of a broken heart i t and this is life ! ! . there is the fortunate unfortunate the man ( who when his last creditor signed off rose in : imagination like a rocket ; a million are in pros pect and prospects enough for a million con quer or die " was the motto and he did die and made no sign . and this is life ! | there is the man of great pretensions whom t to buy at his own price would beggar an astor â€¢' â€” behind his chair and carriage servants wait : < a very respectable man that nobody respects : inwards how full of piety : in actions how in . exorable ; has an all-ahounding appetite for great agencies and through them becomes a { sort of dictator to impoiters and jobbers : his , notion of equit is defined by selden s remark 1 â€” " arcordinji to the size of the chancellor's ; foot in settling family estate he would l.c - more executioner that executor if he should : i ever die a slate and pencil would be an appro ' pria'.e emblem on his grave stone and this is life ! there is the poet fearfully and wonderfully made sometimes life hanging in festoons ot , richest flowers all about him and his aspira tions partaking of their hue ; to him the true and beautiful seem always approaching but ne : ver arrived ; he works day and night in con . structing a monument to the muses and though summoned they come not to its consecration ; he sighs over the apathy and insensibility of bis fellow-men until irÂ«n turns his choice helicon ( into bitters or forces him at last to slake his ( thirst from a fountain of common croton â€” i on this fare he thrives and soon marries into the extensive family of the magazines and has j a very respectable progeny of essays : he sue ] ceeds in walking the earth like other people , only now and then mourning over the decline - of poetry particularly his own and litis is life ! i will say nothing of the man of much money i lar^e wisdom and entire good faith until i find him d e x sabbath in switzerland â€” a correspon i dent of the n y observer writing from zurich savs " i spent the sabbath here and was surprised to find in this home ol zwingli â€” this protestant canton â€” so little . respect to its sanctity towards evening , the military were reviewed on the public j square while on one side was a public ex t hibition of rope dancers and tumblers and - among the tumblers two rosy cheeked pea . sant girls this is a protest canton in j deed protestant it may be but this was j ( no protestant sabbath x by ramming a coal of fire into the muzzle of . a loaded gun you can save the priming j < reigx of terror macaulay in his review of the " me moirs of barrere gives the following brief but striking picture of the reign 01 terror in revolutionary france : then came those days when the most barbarous of all codes was administered by the most barbarous of all tribunals when no man could greet his neighbors - or say his prayers or dress his hair with out danger of committing a capital crime when spies lurked in every corner when __ the guillotine was long and hard at work j every morning : when the jails were filled as close as the hold of a slave ship when * j the gutters ran foaming with blood into â– " the seine ; when it was death to be great i neice to a captain of the royal guard or le a half brother to a doctor of sarbonne : t express a doubt whether assignats would not lull : to hint that the english had been victorious in the action of the lirst of june r to have a copy of burke's pamphlets lock n ed up in a desk : â€” to laugh at a jacobin ot for taking the name of casstus or thno rn | icon or to call the fifth sans-culotide by e its old superstitious name of st maihew's ,. day while the daily wagon loads were carried to their doom through the streets " of paris the proconsuls whom the sover eign committee had sent forih to the de r partments revelled in an extravagance of ss cruelty unknown men in the capital the v knife of the deadly machine rose and fell u too slow for their work of slaughter â€” j long rows of captives were mowed down with grape shot holes were made in the bottom of crowded barges lyons was turned into a desert at arras even the is cruel mercy of speedy death was denied s to the prisoners all down the loire from to samnr to the sea gnat flocks of crows and kites feasted on naked corpses twined together in hideous embraces no mercy o ' 1 mi i â€¢ , was shown to sex or age 1 in number j of young lads and â€¢_: i 1 1 s of seventeen who ie j were murdered by that execrable govern xl ment is to he reckoned by hundreds ba o hies torn from the breast were tossed from v pike to pike alonir the jacobin ranks â€” fr one champion of liberty had his pockets well stuffed with ears another swag . gered about with the finger of a little child in his hat a few months had served to e degrade france below the level of new zealand i travelling over the andes â„¢ i l c pickett esq u slates vkarge _] â– de affaires at lima in a letter to the na vs tional institute remarks â€” ay i have travelled five days at a time a mong the andes without seeing a human creature except those with me and along a track not a road which for the most 1s part serpen ized over almost perpendicu g lar precipices or through a lures literally ii impervious by cutting one's way at every nt step provisions luggage and everything iis were carried on men's backs : and my r saddle-horse was a stout mulatto part in â€¢ dian whom 1 occasionally mounted when tired of walking 1 felt at first a decided * repugnance to this sort of equitation and " could not think of using a fellow-being for a beast of burden : but the necessity of the case and the custom of the country rot the better of my scruples a they bad m of more conscientious men no doubt and jn as the sillero chairman as be was called told me it was his occupation to carry christians over the mountains and solici ' ted tin job i struck a bargain with him and the price was i through i riding ; about half the time this quadrupedal biped if so he may be called turned out m j to be a very surefooted and trusty animal r and carried me in perfect safety t the end . of the route tbe modus equitandihs this : '. instead of a saddle a very liirht chair is used which the chairman dbilrs upon bis back and the traveller ace when seat 3r ed in it is to the north should he be going a to the south and rir versa it i neces ls sary that when mounted he should keep k himself very accurately balanced for there s are many places in passing which a false c step on the part of the sillero might cause j a tumble down a precipice which would -,. : be fatal both to the rider and the ridden pauperism â€” in massachusetts the number , of state paupers lor th year ending 1st of no lv vember 1-4 1 was 6,060 of these 3,688 Â°* more than one half are foreigners l in st louis hc number of paupers in tho ie alms house is i : of these 13 are foreigners . and 25 americans during the inst four jean there have been admitted into tho st louis *" marine hospital 1,289 fbreigaen and 530 > americans 1 : on this the triliune says : â€” 15 â€¢â€¢ sueh acts as these are sometimes cited to n disparage foreigners : bat they may better bo is considered as compliments to americans who _ prefer to rent dwellings for themselres ratbet , than to creep under tbe shelter of thc roofs of edifices provided for t need bj the state â€” 15 besides it is singular that in america â€” the c borne of all classes from the old world hoth the e educate and prosperous the poor and ignorant ie â€” is it singular that some portion ft the latter should claim our charity in this new land of their adoption ! let them come in god's name and get what aceommodatiom they can v in this wide abode of prosperity j let them come but not from european poor 1 houses and european prisons a tax upon the hard laborer of america a poison to society and thc republic why *** e '" wpp u n the sweepings and sweep-oft of thc earth i â€” m nesc york expn ts e of j^p an establishment for themnnufac e ture of various articles of silk is now in *Â» active operation at louisville the lou ic isville journal says most of the opera k tions in this factory are effected by steam the cocoons are reeled on the machine l universally known as the piedmontese *" reel and the silk is spun on a throstle ma 1551 chine a modification of which makes the tw isted silk three looms are worked i and are principally employed in making of sewing silk handkerchiefs vestings and j dress patterns for ladies